Cover photo: A Russian missile hit a multi-storey building in Dnipro on January 14, 2023, killing at least 12 people and injuring about 60 people. Rescuers continue their search under the rubble Saturday night. Evgeny Maloletka / AP
- Attacks were reported from several regions of Ukraine. The bombing of a building in Dnipro left at least 12 dead and sixty wounded, the region’s governor said. Several explosions sounded on Saturday morning Kyiv. Shelling was also reported in the oblasts Kharkov, Zaporizhia and Mykolayiv.
- Russian attacks have also hit other cities, but also the energy infrastructure in Kharkiv and Lviv, according to the Ukrainian authorities. After the last bombing, power cuts were decided in most areas, the energy minister specified.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Russian “terror” could only be stopped with weapons. In his daily update, the Ukrainian president criticized the Russian attacks, arguing that the only way to end them is to fight “on the battlefield”. “What do you need for that? The weapons that are in our partners’ warehouses and that our warriors are waiting for,” he said in an appeal to Ukraine’s western allies.
- According to a Ukrainian official, Soledar is “under the control” of Ukraine. The small eastern town of Soledar, which is at the center of a bitter battle with Russian forces and which Moscow is said to have captured, is still “under Ukrainian control,” Donetsk Oblast governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Saturday, adding that this place and the nearby town of Bakhmout was the “hottest” point on the front lines.
- Britain promises to deliver Challenger 2 to Ukraine. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement on Saturday that he had pledged to supply Challenger 2 tanks and other artillery systems after speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by phone.
- The United Nations (UN) Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine. “Ukraine, Russia, the world cannot afford this war to continue,” said United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo. But “it’s the military logic that dominates, with very little room for dialogue, if there is one,” she added, seeing “no signs of an end to the fighting.”
- On Friday, NATO announced the deployment of Awacs surveillance aircraft in Romania from Tuesday to support its increased presence in the region and to “monitor Russian military activities”.
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